“Jews in the News”

A Los Angeles French Born Jew makes a Request — 1872

To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of Los Angeles.

Gentlemen:

Your petitioners, the officers and members of the French Benevolent Society, respectfully petition your honorable body, for a plot of ground in the city cemetery, in which to bury their members, similar to the plots given or sold to the Masons and Odd Fellows. We hope that your honorable body will consider our petition favorably.